Swalwell questioning of Noem

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40 minutes ago, Ron_Artest said:

Trump thought the actual letters were tattoos.

Noem couldn't admit they are not for fear of making dear leader look stupid.

He had a cold

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I think gutterboy's interpretation is right. Trump says "he has MS clear as day."

"Clear as day is the giveaway. Its not clear as day.

Now I can't re-see the image with new eyes for the first time to be sure. The first time I saw the tattoos was with the letters included. It's beyond any reasonable doubt an MS13 tattoo. There's a very low chance that I would have been able to detect that myself by looking at the image without seeing the photoshopped cues above each finger. I'm not well versed in gang symbolism.

But it's also besides the point.

Trump's greater point lost in this mess is that the guy really is a gangster, the tattoo prove it, and his detractors are barking up the wrong tree by complaing about the photoshopping rather than just admit the tattoos do indeed prove they got the right guy.

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7 minutes ago, Voltaire said:

I think gutterboy's interpretation is right. Trump says "he has MS clear as day."

"Clear as day is the giveaway. Its not clear as day.

Now I can't re-see the image with new eyes for the first time to be sure. The first time I saw the tattoos was with the letters included. It's beyond any reasonable doubt an MS13 tattoo. There's a very low chance that I would have been able to detect that myself by looking at the image without seeing the photoshopped cues above each finger. I'm not well versed in gang symbolism.

But it's also besides the point.

Trump's greater point lost in this mess is that the guy really is a gangster, the tattoo prove it, and his detractors are barking up the wrong tree by complaing about the photoshopping rather than just admit the tattoos do indeed prove they got the right guy.

The photoshopping was to help the uneducated decipher the symbols. 

The MS13 symbolism was clear to people who understand gang symbols. Somebody who knows what they're talking about most likely told Trump "its clear as day" and Trump simply repeated it. 

And people who don't know what they're talking about mocked Trump for doing so.